J hindsii is native to northern California but has since spread throughout the region via cultivation. It is used as a rootstock for J. regia, an ornamental, and for lumber where it is referred to as claro wood.

Stephens et al. produced ‘draft’ genomes for six Juglans species and the related Pterocarya stenoptera. The draft genome contigs were aligned to the Juglans regia genome scaffolds using nucmer (see paper for details). These alignments are available as tracks on the J. regia JBrowse.